What crawled into my mouth and died?

Oh, right, 11 PM fernet with the CTO after I was basically sober…

(Had done 1 drink per hour 4-7, nursed that last beer until 8. CTO to last 5 of us still here at 11: “Fernet! You’re taking an Uber home.”)

Wheeee… Company social event (first time more than 5 employees have been in the HQ office since COVID hit) and holy cow some coworkers got *WAAAAAAAY* too drunk around the executives…

"Proud Boy"/Qanon follower at protest this evening pointed his rifle at counter-protesters (Antifa/BLM) repeatedly.

He was *ALLOWED TO WALK PAST* police officers into a police precinct - carrying his rifle.

Not under arrest. (Ironically, even he appeared to expect to be detained - he wasn't, officer just pointed him by, while stopping a reporter from following ON PUBLIC STREET.

https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1424611482705170435

Wow. We're having our first "all company in-person meeting" since before COVID next week.

CEO sent an email detailing the precautions we're taking. Requiring vaccination or negative COVID test, masks required indoors, even if vaccinated.

At the end: "Additionally, please note that everyone who attended Black Hat in person this week will be taking a COVID test before the off-site regardless of vaccination status."

Good on him!

Ah, the age old dilemma - do I retweet that risque tweet from my "public" account, or my "private" account?

I know more people on my "public" would find it funny; but it's also my more "serious" account used for occasional work-related purposes...

And this is an evil code snippet that should never have to happen:

| .[] | .[0] | .[] | .[] | {u: .t, p: .n}

Sometimes, finishing a script to automate some work is just the most "YES!" feeling ever.

Spend two hours working on the script, it did the work in 5 minutes that would have taken me a couple days manually.

Also, jq's documentation is terrible.

ALMOST THERE! You can do it, CoSo!

CISO: "done! Blame.EdH"

(No, he didn't really.)

Convo btwn me and CISO:
me: "Hey, can you rename <Name With Spaces> to <NameWithSpaces> in <System>? I'm scripting stuff, and no spaces is easier."
CISO: "because \\ is hard? 🙂
me: "Anything to simplify scripting - we have so many 'embedded in embedded in embedded' stuff that requires keeping track of where escaping is going on, I'd rather minimize it when possible."
CISO: "no worries done"
me: "Now can we make it only eight characters, a period, then three characters..... 🤔"

Holy crap! Just watched the new Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer - and they've managed to do it!

Hollywood special effects have gotten perfect.

They managed to make Paul Rudd look older than 25!

/me whistles innocently. The machine-generated disinformation site has comments! They require moderation - which means he sees notifications of comments before they're posted.

I just mashed together all his usernames in one username (including his "work" Twitter account handle and his pr0n Reddit account handle) with the comment "Delete this website."

Was that too stalkery?

Idiot is spamming "serious" subreddits (/r/science, /r/worldnews, /r/biology, etc) with not just pseudoscience misinformation spam, but machine-generated. "For the lulz."

Dude has poor information security/privacy-protection. Just shipped him a bag of dicks.